Condenser



R.E.THOMPSON.V

CONDENSER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 29, 1920.

Patented Apr. 12, 1921;

WITNESSES INVENTOR iii/20722795072,

A TTORNEYS UNITED STATES ROSS EMILE THOMPSON, OF DEMING, NEW MEXICO.

CONDENSER.

Specification of Letters I'atent. Patented Apr. 12, 1921.

Application filed March 29, 1920. Serial No. 369,505.

To all whom it may concern 7 Be it known that I, Ross EMILE THOMP- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Deming, in the county of Luna and State of New Mexico, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Condensers, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to condensers, and more particularly to devices for maintaining vacuum for the exhaust of steam turbines or steam engines. The primary object of my invention. is the provision of a condenser which will to a large extent transfer its heat to air, directly or through the evaporation of water on the surfaces of said condenser exposed to air; and the provision of a condenser unit of simple construction which may be readily manufactured and which will be self sustaining in use to maintain a considerable internal vacuum without collapsing when exposed at its exterior to atmospheric pressure.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention and forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is an elevation, partly broken away and in section, illustrating a possible arrangement of units in a condenser apparatus,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the units removed, and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a fragmen tar portion of the unit shown in Fig. 2.

eferring now to these figures I have shown in Fig. 1 an apparatus in which condenser units 10 are located within a casing '11 having a lower sump 13 to which water may be supplied through a supply pipe 14 under control of a float regulated valve 15.

Water is taken from the sump continuouslythrough a pipe 16 to a centrifugal pump 17 and forced by the latter through a pipe 18 to an apertured spray pipe 19 from which the Water is sprayed downwardly over the series of condenser elements 10 so as to maintain the surfaces of the latter in a moist condition, the evaporation of which in a natural or forced ventilation, carries away the heat.

It is to the condenser units that my invention is directed in particular, proposing as it does the formation of each unit of side walls 20 and 21 of corrugated sheet metal with their corrugations at right angles to and touching one another, the edges of the plates being sealed as by means of riveting or soldering or both entirely around the unit except where the steam intake and outlet pipes 22 and 23 are connected to diametrically opposite corners of the unit as shown in Fig. 2.

In this way I form a condenser unit the construction of which makes for an inherent strength adapting the same to effective utilization with a considerable internal vacuum and when exposed to external atmospheric pressure. At the same time the same formation creates a large area of radiation so that one advantage works with and into the other.

I claim:

A condenser unit of rectangular form having side walls connected, around their edges and each formed of corrugated metal, the corrugations of one side wall being at right angles to those of the other side wall and the corrugations of each wall paralleling opposite edges of the wall, and intake and outlet pipes opening into the condenser at diagonally opposite corners thereof as and for the purpose described.

ROSS EMILE THOMPSON. 

